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Talks on Macedonia name issue to be ramped up but Kammenos unmoved
PoliticsForeign Policyto link their country’s NATO accession course with progress on the name issue. This may produce... met with the negotiators, should not be considered a coincidence. Kammenos may have made his comment.... Nikos Kotzias and his FYROM counterpart Nikola Dimitrov have already met more than three times
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Newsletter 150 -26/01/2018
. But the timing of the news that politicians may be implicated in the Greek case caused some eyebrows... up in the list of alleged suspects despite the fact that he only served in office between the May...” instead of “Alexander the Macedonian National Road.” Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias indicated
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Macedonia name talks move along but key issues still to be addressed
PoliticsForeign Policyon. Nevertheless, the two sides still have some distance to cover. Zaev may have said that three of the seven issues may have been completed, but his junior coalition government partner and deputy prime... to the local press Zaev did not give any details, Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias defined
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Kotzias prepares for significant Skopje visit after making treaty proposal
PoliticsForeign Policyduring an informal NATO Defense Ministers meeting, for instance. It may seem an open-ended process.... Athens may publicly insist on the revision but it also highlights that the “treaty” should be seen...Τhe two-day visit of Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias to Skopje, due to begin this Thursday, has
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Mitsotakis starts to put New Democracy on election footing
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy at this stage does not necessarily reflect a belief within the party that elections may... on Wednesday. Also, Mitsotakis may believe that the appearance of national issues (Turkey and the Macedonia... to the Macedonia issue. Speaking ahead of a visit by Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias to Skopje, Kikilias said
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Kotzias takes next step in effort to reach name deal, settle Balkan issues
PoliticsForeign Policycountry joins the north Atlantic alliance. This may be why, when speaking to MIA last Monday, Zaev... on the name issue, FYROM may become an associate member at NATO. He clarified that it is his intention...Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias is due to visit Ohrid in the Former Yugoslav Republic
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Macedonia name talks face stalemate as core issues go unresolved
PoliticsForeign Policybetween Greece, FYROM, Albania, Bulgaria in Thessaloniki, on May 4-5. The FYROM foreign minister is also expected to come to Athens on May 11 to take part into an unofficial meeting of the Visegrad Group... of FYROM’s constitution. During the three and a half hour talks Nikos Kotzias held with his counterpart
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Pressure mounts on coalition to complete fourth review prior actions
PoliticsGreek Politicsto be launched by the end of May, according to the bill. Energy Minister Giorgos Stathakis has... to be in the position it would like going into the May 24 Eurogroup, or even in June, when the coalition..., former Education Minister Nikos Fylis, who argued that the government has “nothing to celebrate.” “We
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Newsletter 158 -20/04/2018
. The tender for these facilities is due to be launched by the end of May, according to the bill... if the government is going to be in the position it would like going into the May 24 Eurogroup... as far as Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias and Defence Minister Panos Kammenos are concerned, and its
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Elections and possible alliances on political agenda again
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy in power,” adding that he expects the government to be heavily defeated in next May’s...), resulting in a victory for New Democracy. The possibility of Tsipras treating next May’s European... Policy Minister Nikos Pappas revived speculation about SYRIZA and the centre-left grouping Movement
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